Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

2022
★★★★☆ 7.7/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 2 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 116 min/episode
Documentary
Explore the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

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Seasons

Season 1
2022 • 2 Episodes
After building a printing empire in Philadelphia with his wife Deborah, Benjamin Franklin gains worldwide fame from electricity experiments, then spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his family comes apart.

Cast

Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas
William Franklin (voice)
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)

Crew

Director
Ken Burns
Writer
Dayton Duncan
Producer
Ken Burns, David P. Schmidt

Network

PBS

Production

Florentine Films

Keywords

biographyhistoricalamerican revolutionfounding fathers